Activities of José BLANCO LÓPEZ related to 2014/2256(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights (debate) ES
Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights (A8-0209/2015 - Julia Reda) ES
Amendments (39)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that copyright and related rights constitute the legal framework for the European cultural and creative industries and form the basis for their ability to generate economic activity, competitiveness, and employment;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reiterates that the European Union should support its cultural and creative sectors, through a stable, clear and flexible legislative framework, allowing these industries to produce, invest and grow;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recognizes that the development of e- commerce and online activities has brought benefits for society as a whole, but has changed the way IPR enforcement should be considered, particularly because it affords new possibilities for infringement and for spreading tolerance for the idea that IPR infringements could be considered legitimate, especially among the young generation;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses that enforcement of intellectual property rights plays a significant role in ensuring consumers' confidence and safety, whereas counterfeiting is very often linked with a black economy, cybercrime and terrorism;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that the digital environment is generating new forms of production, distribution and consumption that call for adaptation of the current limitations and exceptions in the analogue world to the reality and requirements of the digital environment so as to enable a response to the growth in, and new demand for, online products and services while at the same time ensuring appropriate protection for copyright and related rights and fair remuneration for right holders;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recognises that an appropriate adaptation of Directive 2001/29/EC to the digital era may give rise to entrepreneurship and new business models, thus fostering innovation and employment.
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European legal framework for copyright and related rights is central to the promotion of creativity and innovation, and to access to knowledge and information, and whereas adapting Directive 2001/29/EC to the digital age may give rise to the creation of new businesses and start-ups that would be a source of jobs for the future for young people;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Commission to consider a minimum of harmonisation of the exceptions and limitations referred to in Directive 2001/29/EC, including as a means to ensure greater legal certainty;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Article 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that the European Union shall promote the flowering and diversity of the cultures of the Member States, particularly through artistic and literary creation;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society was aimed at adapting legislation on copyright and related rights to reflect technological developments and the need for adjustments in order to ensure fair remuneration and adequate protection for holders of copyright and related rights in view of new consumer demands and challenges posed by the digital economy and society;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WBelieves that citizens should be able to access and buy online content from another Member State, when it is not accessible from a provider in their own Member State; welcomes the multi- territorial licensing of rights under Directive 2014/26/EU as an example and a way of overcoming the fragmented internal market; encourages the development of balanced and flexible solutions that help overcome the existing barriers to cross- border access and availability of products and services;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the European cultural and creative industries are an engine for economic growth and job creation in the EU, as they employ more than 7 million people and generate more than 4.2 % of EU GDP, and whereas cultural industries continued to create jobs during the economic crisis of 2008-2012;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the multi-territorial licensing of rights under Directive 2014/26/EU as an example and a way of overcoming the fragmented internal market; encourages the development of balanced and flexible solutions that help overcome theany existing barriers to cross-border access and availability of products and services;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights protects the freedom of expression, the freedom of the arts and scientific research, the right to education and, the freedom to conduct a business; and the right to intellectual property;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights the need to promote greater interoperability in particular for software and terminal, as lack of interoperability hampers innovation, reduces competition and harms consumer; believes that lack of interoperability leads to market dominance of one particular product or service, which in turn stifles competition and limits consumer choice in the EU;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recognises the necessity and benefits of ensuring portability of online services of legally acquired and legally made available content, within the European Union;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to assess the available solutions for text and data mining for non-commercial scientific research purposes, taking into account options such as the licensing model, already developed in some Member States;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to propose an harmonised framework for exceptions and limitations to address the fragmented market, improve legal security and foster cross-border accessibility of copyright content, to allow equal access to cultural diversity across the EU and to conform to consumer expectations;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that when Member States provide for exceptions and limitations, they should ensure that the exceptions or limitations do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work or subject-matter and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the rightholder;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to take into account the rapidly growing user-created content on the internetage of creative works on user-generated content and social media platforms on the internet that benefit from public's access to those works without remunerating their creators, when reviewing copyright rules; any new proposal should aim to find a fair balance betweenway to address this transfer of value to fairly remunerate creators, protecting IPR and fostering a more dynamic and creative internet.
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for a broad exception for research and education purposes, which should cover educational and research activities linked to an educational establishment or institution recognised by national authorities or legislation or within the purview of an educational or research programme.
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Believes that common effort should be made in combatting copyright infringements in the EU in order to ensure the protection of copyright and fair remuneration; stresses the need to raise consumer awareness of the consequence of infringement of copyright and related rights;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Urges the Commission to find ways for public and research libraries to lend books to the public in digital formats, irrespective of the place of access and ensuring a fair remuneration to rightholders
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges the necessity for authors and performers to be provided with legal protection for their creative and artistic work; recognises the role of producers and publishers in bringing works to the market, and the need for appropriate remuneration for all categories of rightholders; calls for improvements to the negotiating and contractual position of authors and performers in relation to other rightholders and intermediariesthe value chain in the digital age;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers the introduction of a single European Copyright Title on the basis of Article 118 TFEU that would apply directly and uniformly across the EU, in accordance with the Commission’s objective of better regulation, as a legal means to remedy the lack of harmonisation resulting from Directive 2001/29/ECUrges the Commission to put forward formulas to remedy the lack of harmonisation resulting from Directive 2001/29/EC, taking into account the need to provide balanced solutions that will help to overcome and/or improve cross- border access and portability of products and services based on new consumer demands;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Highlights the importance of making headway in the tax harmonisation of the cultural sector within the EU, in order to reduce disparities between Member States and ensure balanced competition that rises above the existence of 28 different tax regimes;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Emphasises that any legislative change in this field should guarantee people with disabilities access to works and services protected by copyright and related rights and should be adapted to the digital environment;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that exceptions and limitations in the digital environment should be enjoyed without any unequal treatment as compared with those granted in the analogue world, ensuring that holders of copyright and related rights receive a fair remuneration for their works;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to make mandatoryexamine a minimum of harmonisation of all the exceptions and limitations referred to in Directive 2001/29/EC, to allow equal access to cultural diversity across borders within the internal market and to improve legal certainty;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with interest the development of new forms of use of works on digital networks, in particular transformative uses; emphasises the need to ensure copyright is protected to the same extent as in the analogue world;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that the ability to freely link from one resource to another is one of the fundamental building blocks of the internet; calls on the EU legislator to make itprovide clear that reference to works by means of a hyperlink is not subject to exclusive rights, as it does not consist in a communication to a new public12ification on cases in which the establishment of links does not constitute an act of communication to the original public in line with the judgment of the Court of Justice in C-466/12 of 13 February 2014, the Svensson case; __________________ 12 Order of the Court of Justice of 21 October 2014 in Case C-348/13, BestWater International GmbH v Michael Mebes and Stefan Potsch (request for a preliminary ruling from Germany’s Bundesgerichtshof).
Amendment 457 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for a broad exception for research and education purposes, which should cover not only educational establishments but any kind of educational or research activity, including non-formal education run under the aegis of educational programmes or institutions;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls foron the adoption of a mandatory exception allowingCommission to examine ways for libraries to lend books to the public in digital formats, irrespective of the place of accesn compliance with copyright law and guaranteeing a fair remuneration for said rights;
Amendment 500 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU legislator to preclude Member States from introducing statutory licences for the compensation of rightholdersguarantee rightholders fair remuneration for the harm caused by acts made permissible by an exception;
Amendment 541 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24